Thursday doesn't look so hot either. In fact, another coating of snow is possible over much of the region, forecasters said.

It's been awhile since the region has seen a "normal" winter, at least as determined by snowfall averages. The 30-year average for Bridgeport is 25.3 inches, according to the National Weather Service. The Park City has gotten 61.3 inches so far, almost half of it during the blizzard of Feb. 8-9. "That was a season's worth in one storm," said Mike Layer, an NWS meteorologist in Upton, N.Y.

But even subtracting that monster storm, this winter saw above-average snowfall. In fact, Layer said, it may be the snowiest on record in Bridgeport. "The highest seasonal total before this was the winter of 2010-11, when 62.2 inches fell there," he said.

Sandwiched between the two prolific seasons was last year's paltry 9.6 inches of snow, the seventh-lowest total on record, according to the NWS. To find an even milder winter you'd have to go all the way back to 2002.

"Bridgeport got 8.5 inches that year, but some of the top 15 snowiest winters have also come within the past 30 years."

So that 25.3-inch average is more of a math problem than a real-world expectation. "We get different patterns from year to year and a lot depends on elevation," Layer said. "You can also get small-scale features, like a band of snow stalling over an area." That situation accounted for Milford and Hamden getting 6-8 inches more than surrounding towns during last month's blizzard, weather watchers said.

Stamford has an average annual snowfall of 29.2 inches, a completely meaningless figure for city residents this winter. Weather data indicates that January, not February is the snowiest month in Stamford, 9.7 inches, compared to 8.7 in February. We saw how well that worked out this year.

Danbury's annual average snowfall of 29.6 had no bearing on what actually fell from the sky this winter, but the real eye-opener is the average snowfall there in April -- 1.6 inches.

"We do get late-season snow,'' said Layer of the NWS. But 1.6 inches -- in April -- in Danbury? "It does happen,'' the meteorologist said.